Jacob Burkhart

Surfer, Rubyist, Sour Beer Brewer. Maker of things at @HOVER3D. Married to @jbirdcreations. Father of @leolashes and @adelinesqueaks. Banjo for Jesus. he him me

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@NoahKahan @nbcsnl Loved the banjo. Please record more "banjo-forward" versions of your songs! (and release them on Apple Music streaming)

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@ryanwinchester Some people write tech specs, I often get away with a spike proof of concept and a half-working demo. (I write code as part of communicating with the team)

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@ryanwinchester Reading the replies about meeting avoidance and it resonates. Staff engineer for me (when it’s going well) is about finding the balance between code I write alone and code I collab or pair on with others. Team can get more done faster/better than I could on my own

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View my coolest stats in September season!https://t.co/qRADde0Kae

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"Is your last name displayed on the entrance to one of our campus buildings?"
https://t.co/ffM9AEqoP5

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@troutgirl How long do you marinate for? (I’ve had bad luck with pineapple juice turning meats to mush)

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@johncutlefish Tech spec, RFC, PRD… ya these are probably different things. But really I think what matters is the context sharing and the comments and the thing will surely become out of date buts it’s better than having a series of meetings

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When the recipe calls for “1 clove of garlic”

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@coderberry We set an env bar called WHOAMI when connecting to production and then https://t.co/fvaK11CKBt works in production console (a column on users table maps the whoami value to user object, you get a warning if you login with not-found user)

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@ThreatNotation I have a Baritone Ukulele but I tune it like a Banjo (open G or sawmill/C tuning)

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@TonyBakercomedy Just @23payday23

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@kenjimallon Did 2 birds this year. Duck and Turkey together in the same pan. Excellent drippings -> gravy

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@excid3 Getting the Dockerfile right (caching)

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@schneems Defining a method called “scoped” that takes some configuration arguments and contains some logic to apply some defaults to those arguments e.g Image.scoped(include_deleted: true) when you explicitly need to get the soft-deleted ones but Image.scoped.where etc elsewhere

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@excid3 Integration with pub/sub services (how to manage/scale the set of worker processes listening/handling messages)

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@excid3 nested permitted params definitions

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@nvpkp Drone / hover-phone

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@vivianphung Those things in children’s museums where you watch metal balls go down the track and up a conveyor over and over and in the same pattern but there are 3 idle metal balls at the bottom just hanging out proving that sometimes they go off the track but you can never see it happen

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@hiphippie I find making chocolate ganache to be fairly easy but vanilla buttercream to be difficult

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@EuphoriTori Women are coming back from a wedding 💒 and they will do have it for the next year of June on Sunday